"Your Majesty...! Your Majesty, why did you just leave!"

"You want to leave! Just take my concubine with you! Without His Majesty in this world, what's the point of my concubine living...!"

"Your Majesty...!"

Xili's sad cry moved the heavens and the earth, and even the mosquitoes passing by shed tears.

Immediately afterwards.

Continuous wails sounded in the Dongnuan Pavilion, one after another, very rhythmic, and it looked like they had been rehearsed in advance.

Whether it's Concubine Zheng who has been a thorn in Emperor Taichang's side for decades, or the ministers of the five parties headed by Fang Congzhe, or the Donglin Party headed by Liu Yishui.

Every one of these old men is crying.

Liu Yishui: The second assistant in the first year of Taichang. After the death of Emperor Taichang, Xizong ascended the throne and Fang Congzhe was impeached and dismissed. Liu Yishui then took over as the first assistant. After Ye Xianggao came out for the second time, he gave up the first assistant and retired to the second assistant.

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At this moment, everyone was crying, whether they were really crying or fake crying.

Zheng's Fu Wang Party must be crying in a fake way, and I don't know if the Five Party members are really crying in a fake way, but the Donglin Party is definitely crying for real.

After all, the Donglin Party fought hard for decades in the Wanli Year to finally help Zhu Changluo ascend to power. It made such a big political sacrifice and finally waited for the day of reward. The fire of Donglin's rise has just started.

As a result, as soon as Taichang collapsed, most of it was wiped out in an instant.

And at the same time.

In the Dongnuan Pavilion, these wailing loyal ministers could not see at all. There were more than 20 people standing by and watching them quietly, and everyone's eyes were full of knives.

"I, I, I'm not dead yet! Why cry!"

The real Emperor Taichang of Taichang Time and Space had his eyes red with anger. He glared at the group of people in front of him and coughed violently.

Fortunately.

Ji Boying gave everyone the invisibility function, so Zheng and others could not hear the sound.

This invisibility function not only hides the body, but also hides all traces, including sounds and even reflections.

"If you cough twice more, you will be close to death."

Wuzong Zhu Houzhao glanced at Emperor Taichang and grinned.

Anyway, Emperor Taichang is not his direct descendant, so there is no psychological burden in saying a few words.

"You idiot, you are worse than me."

Wu Zong Zhu Houzhao raised his head proudly, he was finally not the one who suffered the most misfortune from his ministers.

In the view of Wu Zong Zhu Houzhao, he had been fighting for more than ten years and lost, and then he was finally forced to embark on a road that was easily soluble in water.

But this Emperor Taichang.

There was no fighting at all during the whole process, and it only lasted a month.

No, it’s twenty-nine days before and after.

From beginning to end, I was completely confused by GG.

"Brother, during the Taichang Dynasty, did a minister kill the king?"

Lao Zhu frowned. He did not expect that in his future life, there would be so many unscrupulous ministers. He glanced at the Taichang ministers who were crying in the Nuan Pavilion, and his tone contained an indifference that contained murderous intent.

Old Zhu Di, Zhu Laosi, including Xiao Zhusi, the young ancestor, all had murderous intent on their faces.

If a minister commits regicide and commits treason, he should be executed in Lingchi and the nine clans will be destroyed.

"Keep watching."

Ji Boying did not answer Lao Zhu's question directly, but just let everyone continue to watch the performance.

Taichang's death was not so much a regicide as a political necessity. After all, in the game of politics, the emperor was just one part of it.

Everyone took a deep breath and focused their attention on these Taichang ministers.

At this time, some of the people kneeling in the Nuan Pavilion had been forcibly cleared and dragged out of the Qianqing Palace, including Liu Yishen, a member of the Donglin Party who was the second assistant to the cabinet.

Not only Liu Yishui, but also several other important officials of the Donglin Party who were promoted from the front after Taichang ascended the throne were all forcibly kicked out.

Although Liu Yishen was very angry about this, he had no choice.

After all, Fang Congzhe is now the chief minister of the cabinet and the top leader of the court. Zheng is the favored concubine of Wanli and the backer of the Fu Wang Party in the court. Xi Li is the favored concubine of the Daxing Emperor and the stepmother of the subsequent emperor, and will have the strongest political capital in the future.

These people all agreed that Liu Yishen could only endure his defeat.

After all the Donglin Party members were driven out and the area was completely cleared, Fang Congzhe stood up calmly and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a silk handkerchief. Inadvertently, a small piece of grapefruit peel fell out of his sleeve.

When the horse boy next to him saw this, he quickly picked it up and hid it.

There were eunuchs who had already brought the utensils needed for the imperial edict.

"Old Fangge."

This will happen.

Zheng and Xi Li also stopped crying. They cried when they wanted to, and they didn't cry when they didn't want to. They were all good actors. They looked at Fang Congzhe with a fiery look in their eyes.

"I know."

Fang Congzhe glanced at the two girls, saluted and nodded.

Next, Fang Congzhe will personally write the final edict of Emperor Daxing as the chief minister of the cabinet.

The emperor's edict is an extremely critical thing. It can be said that whoever masters the edict will have the initiative in the temple in the future.

The most representative example is Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Shuaiguo, who ascended to heaven with two posthumous edicts.

The first posthumous edict was written after the death of the Jiajing Immortal. Xu Jie asked Zhang Juzheng to draft the posthumous edict but rejected Gao Gong. This time, he directly brought Zhang Juzheng into the cabinet.

In the second posthumous edict, Zhang Juzheng directly overthrew the arrogant Gao Gong and became the chief minister of the cabinet, all by holding the pen that wrote the Longqing posthumous edict.

The edict included several relatively conventional contents, such as reviewing the governance achievements during the reign, reviewing one's own mistakes, announcing who would inherit the throne in the future, telling ministers to continue working hard to assist the new emperor, and discussing funeral ceremonies.

What should I do?

After writing the regular content, the next step is to enter the stage of free play, commonly known as showmanship.

Fang Congzhe probably never would have thought that when he was carefully drafting this Taichang edict, more than twenty ancestors of the Ming Dynasty would stand in a circle around him and look at him.

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They were all gnashing their teeth, and their eyes were filled with beady eyes that wanted to eat him alive.

"This bitch dared to write a will in such a random way. It was a waste of my trust in him in the past!"

Emperor Taichang gritted his teeth, his pale cheeks turned red with anger. He wanted to take action several times, but was restrained by Wuzong Zhu Houzhao on the side.

Old Zhu Abiao, Old Zhu Di, Zhu Laosi and others looked at what Fang Congzhe wrote in the edict, all with frowns and cold eyes.

Especially Lao Zhu.

"When did our Ming Emperor's edicts come to be drafted by his ministers?"

In Lao Zhu's view, the posthumous edict should have been written in advance by the emperor personally or by his ministers while he was still alive, and then sealed after his death. However, now it is written by the ministers after the emperor's death.

Ministers wrote edicts and used them to gain political capital for the next dynasty. This was also a major feature of the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

‘Party fighting.’

Ji Boying looked at what Fang Congzhe wrote in the edict.

The general idea is very simple.

To summarize.

Zheng is a wise man and should be promoted to the throne of Empress Dowager and assist the Crown Prince.

Xili is a wise man and should be promoted to the throne of empress dowager and assist the crown prince.

Fang Congzhe and the other members of the five parties are all loyal and virtuous ministers, loyal to the emperor, and dedicated to the country. They should be promoted to the center of the six ministries, receive additional rewards, and become the pillars of the court. Fang Congzhe, in particular, should assist the crown prince.

Cui Wensheng has made great achievements in introducing medicine and should be rewarded. He should be promoted to the eunuch Bingbi, the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

Li Kezhuo's meritorious service in offering the elixir should be rewarded.

Judging from this edict, no matter what they have done, whether they are prescribing laxatives to the emperor or giving red pills to the emperor, as long as they are members of the Fuwang Party and the Five Parties and One Faction, they can benefit from the edict.<

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The members of the Donglin Party, including Liu Yishen, the current top leader of Donglin, completely defeated the Donglin Party in the imperial edict.

In fact, this is Fang Congzhe.

I mentioned him before in Wanli Time and Space.

Overall, this Fang Congzhe is not actually a bad person.

But he is extremely enthusiastic about party struggles in the court, so everything Fang Congzhe does may not be from his original intention, but it is definitely in the interests of the five parties.

This is different from Ye Xianggao. Although Ye Xianggao was born in the Donglin Party, he tried his best to reconcile the relationship between the parties when he was in power, and even wanted to eliminate partisanship at one time.

Of course.

After the Donglin Party quickly and completely fell into corruption after its rise in Tianqi Year, Ye Xianggao was also powerless.

This is like the bald national army in the middle and late period. Can you say that there are no loyal people in the national army?

General Zhang Zizhong, the heroic spirit will last forever.

From the perspective of later generations, it can only be said that the national army at that time had been corrupted from the inside out, and even those who were willing were unable to recover.
To be continued...